This Day in Alaska History-August 31, 1953



On August 29th, 1885, Lieutenant Henry Tureman Allen arrived in St Michael in the Bering Sea. What made that occasion special was the date and point marked the completion of a 1,600-mile exploration that began at the delta of the Copper River and ended at the drainage of the Tanana into the Yukon River. Yureman […]

Seward’s founder John Ballaine, 58 “Pioneers,” and 25 Central Railway workers pulled into Resurrection Bay on August 28th, 1903. Upon their arrival aboard the “Santa Ana”, they joined the sole family in the area, Mrs. Lowell and her family, and began expanding their new community just north of Lowell Point in earnest. A year before, […]